Sentences with phrase «actually increase emissions»

Under Russia's new post-2020 climate change commitment, the country could actually increase its emissions 40 - 50 percent above current levels by 2030.

«These results show that biofuels causing any significant expansion of palm on tropical peat will actually increase emissions relative to petroleum fuels.

Analysis by the Stockholm Environment Institute shows how far this «creative accounting» is getting us: if emissions from loopholes were included, developed countries would actually increase their emissions!

Replacing proven clean energy with piecemeal projects (some of which may actually increase emissions) would result in limited, if any, carbon benefits.

Based on analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, some states could actually increase emissions, while others are required to make deep cuts.

A June report from the National Academies found that numerous federal programs designed to increase energy efficiency or promote renewable fuels have almost no effect on carbon emissions — or, in some cases, actually increase emissions.

The article found current CO2 emissions aren't falling rapidly enough to slow global warming largely because most public policy has focused exclusively on developing wind and solar power, which may actually increase emissions.

Environmentalists warn that a narrower rule targeting specific plants could actually increase emissions.

He found that over 30 years, corn - based ethanol would actually increase emissions by nearly 100 percent, because farmers exploit previously unfarmed land to grow corn for ethanol.

If California is the only state that eliminates gasoline vehicles, that could allow other states to actually increase their emissions.

ZERO, actually increased emissions as more fossil - fuel energy sources are needed to cover for the times when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine!

Not exact matches

Russia has gone them one better: By picking a 1990 baseline, before the collapse of the Soviet Union's economy, they figure they can actually continue to increase their emissions and still claim a long - term reduction.

Case 2: Global warming IS due to increased CO2 emissions, but we actually DO something to slow it down or reverse it.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

And a Nobel - prize winning chemist has publicized his findings that biofuels made from nitrogen - thirsty plants (like corn and canola) actually produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, because they release nitrous oxide during their production.

Although such synfuels may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions, depending on how they are produced, they will deliver some independence from the tyranny of petroleum.

That's the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, which says China's emissions may have actually increased in 2014, rather than fallen.

Their main complaints are that the turbines are so inefficient that they actually increase carbon dioxide emissions, and so unreliable that they require constant backup from conventional coal and gas - fired stations.

The center's director, Charles Komanoff, noted the plan does not specify the rate of increase, and that the $ 5 - per - ton annual increase is actually «a little slow,» in terms of achieving rapid emissions reductions.

If a region's electricity production exceeds this 600 - ton threshold, such as in countries like India, Australia and China, electrification could actually increase carbon emissions and accelerate climate change.

He notes that the FDA analyzed the environmental impact of POSILAC some 15 years ago (as it assessed its safety) and at that time concluded that it might actually increase greenhouse emissions slightly because of, among other factors, the diesel expended to transport it to farms.

And oddly, steps being taken to decrease emissions from the first two sources could actually increase terrestrial carbon emissions globally.

Having an expert inspect, clean, repair or replace anything that needs it can lower emissions, increase fuel economy and improve the long - term health of your car, all of which can actually save you money down the road.

Sports cars and performance cars are a favorite target of the save - the - earth crowd, of course, but I think I can make the argument that increased availability of fast cars in general — and «hot hatches» in particular — can actually make a positive impact on carbon - dioxide emissions.

At some point though, if the estimates keep increasing there is a good chance it's due to emissions actually increasing.

A new report though shows that the shipping industry not only need not worry about emission reduction programs increasing their costs; in fact, deploying methods to cut emissions could actually save the industry money: That's the word coming via WWF of the International Maritime Organisation.

3) That's especially the case in that if you look at the trajectory of Chinese emissions: as solar manufacturing increases to its present output capacity (well in excess, apparently of 50 GW p.a.), emissions increases slow, to the point that carbonactiontracker actually makes the bold statement that:

Even a rich country's attempt in this respect namely Germany's is a failure and actually increased the global emissions.

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are increasing, and accelerating, and current proposals for reducing them present no plausible scenario in which emissions will actually peak and decline in anywhere near the time frame that is required to avoid what are generally considered «dangerous» levels of CO2 (although points 1 - 3 above suggest that the current levels are more dangerous than has been generally believed).

Even if clouds were decreasing there would be the clear sky super greenhouse effect where the rate at which downwelling thermal radiation grows relative to increasing temperatures is actually higher in the tropics than the rate at which surface thermal radiation emissions increase.

A similar occurrence of decreasing global temperatures with rapidly increasing CO2 emissions took place during the 33 years from 1942 to 1975 (the 70's global cooling scare) so the stated correlation of increased CO2 emissions with global warming never actually existed.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

«I know there are some out there, probably a couple hundred people, who actually believe that the world is coming to an end and man - made global warming is going to cause it, so I just want to give them the assurance that if they're right and we are wrong, [proposed climate policies are] not going to reduce but it will increase CO2 emissions,» he said.

The problem is so big that even if developed countries were to increase their CP2 pledges, they could meet their more stringent targets by simply buying more surplus and without actually cutting their emissions.

Since then, life cycle assessments (LCAs) have shown that corn ethanol has a modest effect, if any, on reducing CO2 emissions and may actually increase them, while posing a threat to natural habitats and food supplies, as food stocks are turned to fuel and marginal lands are put under the plough to keep up with demand.

And not just without increasing emissions, but actually shrinking them by 25 percent per person from 1990 — 2012, all while growing per - capita GDP by 37 percent in the same period and creating what one report has hailed as the second - greenest economy in the world.

FAR revealed, for example, that on the most important indicator of uncertainty in climate science — the likely range of warming for a given increase in carbon dioxide emissions — progress was actually retrograde.

A chart on page 115 of Dominion's IRP shows every one of the scenarios Dominion studied will actually increase the company's total CO2 emissions between now and 2042.

When Oreskes quotes, ««Human activities... are modifying the concentrations of atmospheric constituents... that absorb or scatter radiant energy... [M] ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions», her quotation is accurate and she actually emphasizes the word likely.

And as for «solutions to the climate change challenge», I would be grateful if he would kindly explain what the government proposed solution of a carbon tax will actually do for the climate, when China and India's increasing emissions will swamp anything Australia can achieve unilaterally.

Furthermore, the graph on page xxxiv appears to show almost constant CO2 emissions until 2020 in the BaU scenario, whereas it is reported that CO2 emissions have actually increased since 1990.

Farming, if done properly, can actually decrease greenhouse emissions by increasing the soil's carbon content, and in turn increasing productivity.

In Australia, emissions actually increased after the introduction of a carbon tax because of different loopholes and exceptions.

One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human - induced climate changes).

WWF, the World Wildlife Fund, released a report this week claiming that one - fifth of all United Nations carbon credits are going to projects that might actually be increasing emissions.

Actually, the Emissions increase linearly, Trade exponentially.

«We've looked at recent developments in China and India and they are actually overcompensating for the potential increase in emissions in the U.S.. That's because renewables are happening much faster in China and India, they are replacing coal much faster, and that leads to significantly lower emissions,» he said.

The increase in online shopping has actually resulted in increased overall emissions from vehicles - specifically delivery vans, according to The Times of London.

logically, australia is NOT decreasing (but is actually hugely increasing) its CO2 emissions precisely because it is sending far more CO2 emissions to china with our coal exports than what we claim we will reduce (but probably won't) at home.

The final Clean Power Plan rule actually allows California to INCREASE its carbon dioxide emissions, while forcing Kentucky and other states to cut theirs by over 40 %.